Sophie visits neglected corners of cities and landscapes to find the unfamiliar in the mundane and the charisma in its decay. She seeks to extract an accidental beauty out of parts of the city usually ignored: structures and materials that typically blend into the background are reframed as the subject. The unexceptional, the functional, and the infrastructural are treated as personalities. Sophie re-appropriates the detritus of a city in hyper-real still-lifes. Objects that have been abandoned as useless are artfully composed and saturated with colour until they gain an unexpected significance. Individuality is found where it is least supposed to be – in the margins and epilogues of the endless urban narrative. Sophie's gaze is unsentimental and detached – but not without empathy. Its images work together to form secret histories, and perhaps thus secret futures, out of the overlooked and the discarded. The subjects of these photographs are given a collective meaning when they are placed in sequence – almost like a private city is being rebuilt out of what the city has rejected.